1- As If God needs defending2- As if humans could3- As if anyone cares what keiths sez

But anyway, being brought up in a Christian family and having attended catholic schools, it is clear to anyone with an IQ over 50, that pain and suffering are the result of the fall of man. We brought it upon ourselves, with a lttle help from below. Now we have to deal with it.

Individual salvation can be had, as can individual damnation- equal opportunity. The choice is yours.

So that is how Christians explain and accept the world, keiths- unless they have changed in the past thirty + years.